About Experience Corps

AARP Experience Corps is the association’s newest program for 50-plus adult volunteers who want to tutor and mentor youth in their communities. Operating in 19 cities across the country, AARP Experience Corps helps to improve literacy primarily in kindergarten through third grade.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“Working with the children during these past five years has been both challenging and rewarding. When a child asks, ‘Will you be my tutor again?’ for the second or even third year, it is gratifying. When that child achieves measurable success in reading and general deportment, it is doubly gratifying.”

“It's really been a two-way street. I feel like I get a whole lot more than I could give out. I don't know how many times in my life I've heard a successful individual say that a neighborhood person, or a teacher, or a mentor, said something or did something that made a change in them. You're not just working with a child today. You're making an impact that could be everlasting.”

– Que Payne
New Haven, Conn.

‘A powerful learning tool’

“Experience Corps helps to develop a caring culture of young people. It allows children to see that older people have a lot to offer. There's a lot of wisdom there. There's a lot of understanding. There's a lot of love. When we have Experience Corps tutors together with children and teachers, it's a good mixture and it's a powerful learning tool for children.

“Since Experience Corps has come into the schools, test scores have continued to rise. Its no small secret that Experience Corps has played a large role. We need this program in all of our schools.”

– Paul Vallas, former CEO, School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia

‘I really didn't know what was wrong’

"She wasn't reading to me at all before the tutoring. She would read 'cat' and 'dog,' only words that are so common. I was extremely worried. I really didn't know what was wrong. Now she reads with the other kids."

– Iesha Lewis, parent
New York City

‘Significant change’

“As a parent, I've seen a significant change in my daughter's ability to write, read and identify words. I give a lot of credit to the wonderful tutors from the Generations Incorporated [host to Experience Corps Boston].”

– Hector Alvarez, parent
Boston
‘A wonderful source’

“Generations Incorporated [host to Experience Corps Boston] has been a wonderful source of tutoring for [my granddaughter]. I have been invited to the different activities at the school and see how much the tutors help the children.“

– Paulette Gray, grandmother
Boston

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